rethinking the plugin load order change

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:01 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:


> One argument might be to have a default site location for plugins,
> rather than /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/*
> 
> And then it could be a 3-tier. Load from bzrlib/plugins, then from user,
> then from site-wide.
> 
> At the moment, though we only have 2 locations, so bzrlib/plugins should
> be underneath user plugins. Otherwise users have no way to override site
> installed plugins.

Yes, this is something I thought I suggested before: it solves several
issues:
 - this one
 - uninstalling bzr without affecting 3rd party installed plugins
 - 3rd party plugins that get moved into core will stop overwriting the
bzr copy on disk when they are installed.

I'm +1 on this.

-Rob

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